On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:11:03AM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> Obviously this is causing starvation. Maybe one ftpmaster should always work
> from the back of the queue, or they should make sure to always process one
> package from the back of the queue for every three from the front?
That's not very fair on the maintainer who is unfortunate enough to
upload their package just before ten others.
I enquired previously about whether we might have some developers
assist the ftpmasters by pre-assessing packages and reporting
appropriately, which might ease the process. I don't know if this would
actually help them or just duplicate work, since they need to be sure
that it's been done properly in any case. (ftpmasters: your thoughts?)
I'd happily help out in this area, but not being a DD I'd probably need
considerable mentoring, at least to start with.
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Jonathan Wiltshire
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